Join us for our annual e-recycling event this April!
The Cleveland Zoological Society, the nonprofit advancement partner of Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, and MCPC, a data protection company, are hosting E-Recycling Day on Friday, April 19, 2024.
MCPC has an e-recycling facility on Pearl Road in Old Brooklyn, and Chairman and Founder Mike Trebilcock has been working with the Zoo since 2018.
MCPC will be accepting quite a number of items, from cell phones to computer keyboards and nearly everything in between. Click here for a full list of items that will be accepted on April 19.
Bring your old electronics to the Zoo for recycling on Friday, April 19.
The Cleveland Zoological Society, the nonprofit advancement partner of Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, and MCPC, a data protection company, are hosting E-Recycling Day on Friday, April 19, 2024. Guests are encouraged to bring their old electronics to the Zoo’s parking lot where MCPC will have a secure truck that will take the electronics back to their facility for recycling.
E-Recycling Day with MCPC
Friday, April 19
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
The Zoo's parking lot (at the far back of the Tiger Lot)
Event is rain or shine
MCPC's Go Green! Machine will accept your recyclable items on April 19
Recycling unused electronic devices enables us to recover valuable metals and materials including copper, aluminum, titanium, gold, and silver, which can be reclaimed and reused in new electronic devices. E-recycling saves natural resources, reduces pollution, conserves landfill space, and creates jobs, including right here in Cleveland!
E-recycling is largely a process of separating plastics from metals and internal circuitry. First, your electronics will be dismantled, and components separated by type: power cords, plastic and metal housings, circuit boards and chips, LCDs, etc. Then, these components will be processed by our secure, specialized recycling partners so they can be used to manufacture new electronics.
If you recycle a device that holds data (such as a desktop or laptop computer, smartphone, or tablet), we will erase it with software that uses a standard 3-pass data overwrite, or secure SSD erasure process. This permanently destroys your data in compliance with standards set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Drives and storage devices that fail erasure are shredded at the MCPC Secure Technology Asset Disposition Center in Old Brooklyn.
Help us keep thousands of recyclable electronics out of landfills
Our annual recycling event with MCPC began in 2021. Since then, E-Recycling Day with MCPC has resulted in more than 51,500 pounds of electronics donated!
Student volunteers from the Cleveland Metropolitan School District helped the recycling day event efforts in 2023